Internet Spamming and Censorship Not long ago, a manager of a giant company based in Texas wanted to sell his boat. In the old days he would have posted a notice and photo on the bulletin board in the employee lounge. This being the 1990s, he emailed everyone in the company a description of his boat's features and attached, of course, some color pictures of the boat. As a result, his company's email network crashed. Incidents like this occur because massive email sends, especially with high-quality graphics, use more bandwidth than the network allows. The fact is that transmitting 15 seconds of high-quality video over the web (the multimedia aspect of the Internet) requires the same bandwidth as transmitting the text of War and Peace. The nautical marketing disaster is an example of so-called internal spamming. The etymology of this new verb, spam, is unclear. Most experts say its namesake is corned beef. Others attribute it to Monty Python's routine about senseless offers. In either case, spamming is the act of sending unsolicited, mass-distributed junk mail. Spamming arose spontaneously as a consequence of the fact that web transmission costs were reduced to almost zero. When spammers hit users with thousands of copies of the same message, chaos ensues. When a massive email blast clogs up users' inboxes, those affected are not just the targeted users but also everyone else on the network. Frequent delays can cause deadlines to be missed and businesses to fail. Within an organization, technology abuse can be controlled by establishing an explicit company policy and enforcing it with severe sanctions. Like... half of the document... a) introduced a complex bill called The Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Choice Act, and Rep. Chris Smith (R., NJ) proposed a simple amendment to existing law relating to junk fax. The problem is that the legislation only addresses the symptoms; it does not cure the disease. Observance of the rules of conduct is effective only when there is a common agreement in a society. Internet business has the unique characteristic of having no monopoly power over resources; therefore, it does not represent a threat to users' choices and freedom. Any attempt to regulate the Internet market through censorship of its pornographic tendencies will be met with considerable anti-Christian sentiment and face an uphill battle. WORKS CITED: "CN Enterprises" http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/cases /flowers1.html"Communications Decency Act" http://www.epic.org/cda/